Use Aliases

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Last updated: Jul 14, 2023 by Ryan Clifton
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Summary

Aliases are versatile mechanisms for providing short cuts to common directives, e.g. an Alias bug with value issueType=bug allows a Directive of @bug to be used. Additionally, Aliases can be used to provide a mapping from some other source that happens to match a supported JEMH Field Processor format, for example, if a remote system created a value:

Related Systems: this,that,the other

Step-by-step guide 

  1. Go to Profiles > Your Profile, click the Cog Icon

  2. Go to Project Mappings > Default, click the Cog Icon

  3. Go to Field Processors and click the Edit button

Enable field processors/directives: 

Select the operations where directives are active (Create, Comment or Both) and the type of directives allowed (#, @, colon). 

Add the aliases

  1. Press Add Alias

  2. This will then add a new alias, within this alias add the relevant values.

Example of two alias that can be used.

Send a test email with the @task @done in the top of the email. You can create a test case from that email. Once the email is processed you will see that a new issue is created and is automatically set to Done.

Report Outcome:

Issue View:

Additional information about Field Processors and Directives

For more information see the following pages:

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